New street art June-July 2015 part 2

Here’s a gallery of new street art that appeared in the streets and alleys of Montreal during July 2015, with a bit of leftovers from June. The past few weeks saw the creation of many murals and mural pieces, as well as a lot of wheatpastes thanks to the return of three of our biggest pasting artists (read below). There has a been a surprisingly small amount of new stickers on traffic signs and other ‘urban furniture’ the past few weeks. This is presumably because the city has been more pro-active in removing stickers lately, but also because our most active slappers are out of town or busy with personal projects. Again, there was enough graffiti to justify a separate post to be published within the coming week.

Stay tuned for some very big murals which should be completed in time for my next ‘new works’ post. Meanwhile, if you can’t wait until then, you can follow me on Instagram and view the progress of said murals, or see photos of the best of new street art as soon as I discover it.

wheatpastes and large paste-ups

We were spoiled in July by treats from three of this city’s major pasting artists: Stikki Peaches, Miss Me and Turtle Caps. All three had been relatively quiet in Montreal so far this year. Miss Me returned with a mix of older and new designs. The older ones were offered in new colours while the new designs were picked from the work she had created for her “Saints Of Soul” indoors expo last winter. Turtle Caps returned with mostly older designs, but the ones shown below were new to Montreal, at least in these formats.

This wheatpaste showing Marvin Gaye by Miss Me was found in St-Henri but another specimen found in Mile End was already featured in my previous ‘new works’ post. The small paste-up in the bottom right corner is an older one by Zu.